Altered StatesA Reader in the New World Orderedited by Phyllis Bennis and Michel Moushabeck intro. by Noam Chomsky

6" x 9" • 538 pagesISBN 9781566561150 • hardback • $25.00 •

" No other work known to me covers as comprehensively and critically world politics after the Cold War. This is a unique compendium of dissenting voices from Tony Benn and Mary Kaldor to Noam Chomsky and Edward Said... should be required reading for students and teachers alike. " — Eqbal Ahmad, Hampshire College

The "new world order" has become the watchword of U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War, post-Gulf War world. The aftermath of those two wars, one almost half a century old, the other lasting only months, has been marked by new sets of political, economic, strategic and military relations across the globe. Altered States has gathered leading academics and analysts from around the world to investigate the impact of the changing world, especially on the nations and peoples of the South, the developing countries of the Third World. These essays provide the most comprehensive guide to the emerging "new world order," with detailed analyses of specific national and regional situations, while never losing sight of the global ramifications of changing political, economic and military relations in a world with only one superpower.